A Modularity rethink for Fedora

Posted Jan 5, 2018 13:38 UTC (Fri) by Conan_Kudo (subscriber, #103240)
In reply to: A Modularity rethink for Fedora by sgallagh
Parent article: A Modularity rethink for Fedora

> Among other things, yum/dnf scales very poorly to additional repositories (particularly in terms of retrieving the metadata).

This is news to me. My Fedora system is able to handle more than a dozen repositories (COPR repos, third party applications, and Fedora main repositories) rather well.

Sure, it could be better (most of the DNF developer team would like to get rid of librepo and libcomps to do something less convoluted), but it works very well.

A Modularity rethink for Fedora

Posted Jan 5, 2018 14:02 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> My Fedora system is able to handle more than a dozen repositories (COPR repos, third party applications, and Fedora main repositories) rather well.

Unlike yum, dnf downloads the filelists regardless of whether it needs to and that alone is a very significant problem for people with low bandwidth. I know there has been some discussions over this but so far, this hasn't been really addressed.